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Volume 21, Issue 5
1 May 1949
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| May 01 1949

Full‐Scale Research on a Flying Wing: Some Problems‐Encountered in the Evolution of the A.W.52 Tailless Aircraft

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1949
Aircraft Engineering (1949) 21 (5): 144–158.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb031761

SIX years ago Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Ltd. began to take a serious interest in the design and development of tailless aircraft and today two types arc undergoing research flight testing.

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